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The purposes of this paper have to discuss issues related to Network Traffic Management. A relatively new category of network management is fast becoming a necessity in converged business Networks. Mid-sized and large organizations are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-12-22 Namdeo V. Kalyankar

Network traffic classification using machine learning techniques has been widely studied. Most existing schemes classify entire traffic flows, but there are major limitations to their practicality. At a network router, the packets need to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Sayantan Chowdhury , Ben Liang , Ali Tizghadam , Ilijc Albanese

Traffic classification, i.e. the identification of the type of applications flowing in a network, is a strategic task for numerous activities (e.g., intrusion detection, routing). This task faces some critical challenges that current deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Kevin Fauvel , Fuxing Chen , Dario Rossi

Deep neural networks have demonstrated superior performance in short-term traffic forecasting. However, most existing traffic forecasting systems assume that the training and testing data are drawn from the same underlying distribution,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Yichao Lu

With the increasing prevalence of encrypted network traffic, cyber security analysts have been turning to machine learning (ML) techniques to elucidate the traffic on their networks. However, ML models can become stale as new traffic…

Network traffic monitoring using IP flows is used to handle the current challenge of analyzing encrypted network communication. Nevertheless, the packet aggregation into flow records naturally causes information loss; therefore, this paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Josef Koumar , Karel Hynek , Tomáš Čejka

Traffic classification, a technique for assigning network flows to predefined categories, has been widely deployed in enterprise and carrier networks. With the massive adoption of mobile devices, encryption is increasingly used in mobile…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Kun Qiu , Ying Wang , Baoqian Li , Wenjun Zhu

Traffic prediction plays a vital role in efficient planning and usage of network resources in wireless networks. While traffic prediction in wired networks is an established field, there is a lack of research on the analysis of traffic in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Amin Azari , Panagiotis Papapetrou , Stojan Denic , Gunnar Peters

This paper proposes a novel framework to predict traffic flows' bandwidth ahead of time. Modern network management systems share a common issue: the network situation evolves between the moment the decision is made and the moment when…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Maxime Labonne , Jorge López , Claude Poletti , Jean-Baptiste Munier

Network traffic classification (NTC) is vital for efficient network management, security, and performance optimization, particularly with 5G/6G technologies. Traditional methods, such as deep packet inspection (DPI) and port-based…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ehsan Eslami , Walaa Hamouda

The classification of internet traffic has become increasingly important due to the rapid growth of today's networks and applications. The number of connections and the addition of new applications in our networks causes a vast amount of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Igor Cherepanov , Alex Ulmer , Jonathan Geraldi Joewono , Jörn Kohlhammer

The need to satisfy the QoS requirements of multiple network slices deployed at the same base station poses a major challenge to network operators. The problem becomes even harder when the desired QoS involves packet delays. In that case,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Panagiotis Nikolaidis , Asim Zoulkarni , John Baras

Network traffic data is huge, varying and imbalanced because various classes are not equally distributed. Machine learning (ML) algorithms for traffic analysis uses the samples from this data to recommend the actions to be taken by the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-11-13 Raman Singh , Harish Kumar , R. K. Singla

The plethora of Internet of Things (IoT) devices leads to explosive network traffic. The network traffic classification (NTC) is an essential tool to explore behaviours of network flows, and NTC is required for Internet service providers…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Yoga Suhas Kuruba Manjunath , Sihao Zhao , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Link dimensioning is used by ISPs to properly provision the capacity of their network links. Operators have to make provisions for sudden traffic bursts and network failures to assure uninterrupted operations. In practice, traffic averages…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Mohammed Alasmar , Nickolay Zakhleniuk

Network management often relies on machine learning to make predictions about performance and security from network traffic. Often, the representation of the traffic is as important as the choice of the model. The features that the model…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Francesco Bronzino , Paul Schmitt , Sara Ayoubi , Hyojoon Kim , Renata Teixeira , Nick Feamster

Class-of-service (CoS) network traffic classification (NTC) classifies a group of similar traffic applications. The CoS classification is advantageous in resource scheduling for Internet service providers and avoids the necessity of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Yoga Suhas Kuruba Manjunath , Sihao Zhao , Hatem Abou-zeid , Akram Bin Sediq , Ramy Atawia , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Existing website fingerprinting and traffic classification solutions do not work well when the evaluation context changes, as their performances often heavily rely on context-specific assumptions. To clarify this problem, we take three…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Elham Akbari , Zihao Zhou , Mohammad Ali Salahuddin , Noura Limam , Raouf Boutaba , Bertrand Mathieu , Stephanie Moteau , Stephane Tuffin

Recent network traffic classification methods benefitfrom machine learning (ML) technology. However, there aremany challenges due to use of ML, such as: lack of high-qualityannotated datasets, data-drifts and other effects causing aging…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Jaroslav Pešek , Dominik Soukup , Tomáš Čejka

Automatic traffic classification is increasingly becoming important in traffic engineering, as the current trend of encrypting transport information (e.g., behind HTTP-encrypted tunnels) prevents intermediate nodes from accessing end-to-end…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Saira Bano , Achilles Machumilane , Lorenzo Valerio , Pietro Cassarà , Alberto Gotta